Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.

When the ladies see an athlette walking around, they think, Well, he got the cocaine, so let's go get high with him.

Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them; I just talk to the players.

When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way.

I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.

I've always just wanted to play ball, that's all. I didn't want to do no interviews, because I didn't want to be bothered with reporters.

People might get mad for five or ten minutes, but then they respect you more. And the next time they see you, they'll tell their friends, "Don't go up to him with that stuff - he don't mess with cocaine."